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Housing Availability Leading the NationFlorida has roughly half the population of
California but more vacant homes ready to be sold. In fact Florida has
more immediately available vacant homes, over the one out of every six
in the state, then any other state in the country.

Pro-rail forces launch fierce counterattacksOpposition forces
deny reports of talks with Scott camp. Forces loyal to High Speed Rail used
Twitter, Facebook, protests, and chants again this week to mount a fierce
counterattack on the Governor-held city of Tallahassee, according to witness
reports.

Tampa Bay’s Stubborn 12% UnemploymentFlorida’s job market
is sickly, diseased, dying, clinging to life like a zombie is undead.
But at least things are barely measurably better in the sunny paradise
of Tampa Bay.

Affordable Housing on the RiseTampa and seven other dynamic progressive metro
areas hit new highs in affordable housing at the end of 2010 promising a
great new year full of opportunity.

Hillsborough to Super Size Economic
DevelopmentHillsborough county heard a presentation
Tuesday on the county’s issues and opportunities on attracting new
business as they finally start to make small cosmetic efforts on
addressing the devastated economy.

Florida
Senator Finds How to Balance State BudgetFlorida State Senator
Bill Maxim (R-South Tampa) has a new untapped and growing tax revenue
source so strong it will balance the state budget. “We must look for new
revenue sources, which we have found now, to avoid drastic cuts to our
pork barrel spending,”

With prices not yet at bottom and sales falling many
economists predict the housing crisis in Tampa Bay will get worse. What do
you think?
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Special
Guest Columnist
Robert TruBlows

Florida
Governor is Consolidating Economic Power and FundingFlorida’s’ Economic Development
strategy seems to have become one pf rapid consolidation of power
and money away from local incompetent boobs and into the hands of
evil Governor Scott and his collection of incompetent boobs in State
government.

Jackboy Labs A Bad Deal for SarasotaThe initial celebration over Sarasota “winning”, really stealing,
the biotech expansion of Maine based Jackboy Labs is fading and now
faces a huge battle to convince the mean and evil-rail killer Gov.
Scott to use $100 million of state funds to support the deal.

Quickly Scott
Reveals His Real AgendaMy Word, Governor Rick Scott
has been sunshine Florida’s Governor a few weeks and he is well on
his way to creating ore controversy then the last three good old boy
Governors combined.

After Years of
Trying Rail FailsEvil Rick Scott has put a stake into the
heart of the corrupt and bleeding heart of high speed rail in the
sunshine state. Now all is left for the HSR is its death throes of
whining, finger pointing, history rewriting and out right lies with
heavy does of self-delusion.

Cluster Tampa Bay A long time ago a young man
pondering a job with the dynamic publicly traded company Data Tech in Clearwater
called me to learn about Tampa Bay.

Insights from three
veterans on Florida’s EconomyTroubled by the appearance of
a devastated hopeless economy, shell shocked housing market, and huge
unemployment, three brainy trendy and perky persons without any real business
experience shed light on where the Florida economy is heading in 2011.

A Tale of Two ClustersSt Pete’s economic
development strategy has an odd and uninvited advocate, BP, courtesy
of the worst oil spill in American history.

High On High Speed RailA
roundtable cabal of high speed rail supporters gathered this week at
the Greater Tampa Bay Chamber Partnership offices to ponder
strategies to get the deal complete in the face of voter rejection
and loss of political support in Tallahassee.

High Speed
Rail Afoot Without The State
Governors Rick Scott’s
ill-advised, unapproved and down right unhip rejection of the idealist high
speed rail stunned supporters of the project who feel entitled to whatever they
want.

Pessimists PersistAdmittedly it is no surprise
that Leading Florida’s’ annual State Survey shows a majority of our residents
believe the state is worse off this year.

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Faced with a dramatically obvious decline in the number of Americans
moving to Florida, economic development propagandists are now
promoting the sunshine state as a cluster of research and
technology, not just a balmy happy place with a crippled economy.

Nearly half of all
homes in Tampa are already underwater. The dire situation affects
all neighborhoods regardless of status and wealth. Historical
treasures have been lost such as the Centro Espanol de West Tampa
and Mass Brothers Buildings.

After laying off
his first 100 employees in a clumsy and uncoordinated effort PWC
executive Larry Wilford here in Tampa hit a groove and found a fast
pace and method to effortlessly layoff the remaining 400 employees.

Sponsored with economic development funneled from our political and
social connections at the Greater Tampa Bay Chamber Partnership who
hold no expectation of job performance upon us.

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